Climate twins of Barstow, CA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Barstow's. Each "twin" must be at least 140 miles away to avoid trivial near-neighbor matches. Similarity is computed across all 24 monthly metrics (12 average temperatures + 12 average precipitations), normalized so temperature and precipitation contribute equally.
Side-by-side: Barstow vs its climate twin
Top match: Mesquite, NV
| Month | Barstow | Mesquite | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 59.0°F | 35.3°F | 0.76 in | 59.8°F | 30.2°F | 0.80 in |
| February | 62.8°F | 39.4°F | 0.98 in | 64.8°F | 34.7°F | 0.86 in |
| March | 69.7°F | 44.2°F | 0.59 in | 72.9°F | 39.6°F | 0.62 in |
| April | 76.9°F | 49.4°F | 0.30 in | 80.6°F | 45.9°F | 0.30 in |
| May | 85.7°F | 56.9°F | 0.06 in | 90.4°F | 55.4°F | 0.13 in |
| June | 96.0°F | 65.0°F | 0.04 in | 101.2°F | 62.6°F | 0.13 in |
| July | 102.1°F | 71.8°F | 0.26 in | 106.2°F | 70.9°F | 0.29 in |
| August | 101.0°F | 70.4°F | 0.17 in | 104.5°F | 70.2°F | 0.69 in |
| September | 93.3°F | 63.3°F | 0.25 in | 97.0°F | 59.8°F | 0.35 in |
| October | 80.9°F | 52.6°F | 0.35 in | 83.7°F | 47.7°F | 0.61 in |
| November | 67.5°F | 41.6°F | 0.40 in | 68.9°F | 36.3°F | 0.51 in |
| December | 57.4°F | 34.9°F | 0.80 in | 58.7°F | 29.0°F | 0.64 in |
Cities that consider Barstow their climate twin
These US cities have Barstow in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Barstow would feel familiar.
- Mesquite, NV (ranks Barstow #2)
- Wasco, CA (ranks Barstow #1)
- Coalinga, CA (ranks Barstow #3)
- Taft, CA (ranks Barstow #3)
- Maricopa, CA (ranks Barstow #3)
- Ivins, UT (ranks Barstow #2)
- St. George, UT (ranks Barstow #2)
- Santa Clara, UT (ranks Barstow #2)
How this is computed
Each city is represented by a 24-dimensional vector: 12 monthly average temperatures and 12 monthly average precipitations. Each dimension is z-score normalized across the population of US cities, so that temperature variance and precipitation variance contribute proportionally. Distance between cities is Euclidean. We filter out cities within 2° latitude/longitude (~140 miles) so that "twins" mean climatically similar but geographically distinct — not just the neighboring town. Full methodology →